Process of producing an edible compound.



UNITED STATES JAMES BOYCE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO AMERICANCOTTON OIL COMPANY,

PATENT OFFICE.

OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

PROCESS OF PRODUCING AN EDIBLE COMPOUND.

No Drawing.

Patented May 6, 1913.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JAMES Boron, a citizen of the United States, residinat Chicago, county of Cook, and State 0 Illinois, have invented certainnew and useful Imrovements in Processes of Producing an dible Compound,which is set forth in the following specification.

My invention relates to a process of producin 'an edible compound andthe com poun thus produced, together with one process of producing it,are described and claimed in a separate application for patent 'filedFebruary 25,1911, Serial No. 610,922.

The present rocess is an alternative to the one so descri ed andclaimed.

My new compound consists, in brief, of a mixture of a refined edible oilwith a hardening material consisting of a synthetic stearin, produced bythe action of hydrogen in the presence of a catalytic upon a previouslyunsaturated oil or fat.

My present process consists in producing the aforesaid mixture bysubjecting the body ofrefined, unsaturated oil itself to the catalyticaction of hydrogen, such action however being only carried to a degreesufficient to convert the required fraction of the oil into thesynthetic stearin, the hydrogenizing process being arrested at a pointwhen the said stearin will be of an amount equal to about twenty percent. of the entire body of oil and stearin. By arresting the action at-this point there will remain a mixture of the refined, unsaturated oiland the synthetic stearin produced b the hydrogenizmg of a portion ofthe original body of oil. Thls mixture will be of the consistency oflard and will be edible. The hydrogenizmg process above referred to iswell known and need not be described in detail. By this means I produceat small cost a highly useful form of food.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

The method of producing an edible compound, which consists in firstrefining an unsaturated oil or fat to an edible condition, and thenmixin the same with a synthetic stearin by sub ecting it to the actionof hydrogen in the presence of a catalytic and arresting such action atthe point when the desired amount of said synthetic stearin has beenproduced by the saturation with hydrogen of a portion of the said oil orfat, the resulting product being a mixture of a 'portion of the originalbody of oil or fat and the synthetic stearin having a consistency oflard.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand, before two subscribingwitnesses, this 15th day of February, 1911.

JAMES BOYCE.

Witnesses:

E. M. BENTLEY, J NO. F. LAYER.

